Verse (105:5) - English Translation

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This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fifth verse of
chapter 105 (sūrat l-fīl).
Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (105) sūrat l-fīl (The Elephant)

Sahih International: And He made them like eaten straw.

Pickthall: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Yusuf Ali: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

Shakir: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

Muhammad Sarwar: to turn them into (something) like the left-over grass grazed by cattle.

Mohsin Khan: And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).